Comrade Litkens,

Copy to the Small Sovnarkom

At the end of December last year I wrote to the People's Commissariat of Education regarding Professor Krug's request to provide the Moscow Higher Technical School with premises for an Electrotechnical Faculty and Electrotechnical Institute, and I requested that particular attention be paid and every effort made to fulfill this request*.

On February 9th I received another letter from Professor Krug, in which he writes that the People's Commissariat of Education has still not come to the school's assistance. Professor Krug points out that it would be entirely possible, without difficulty, through consolidation procedures, to provide the Electrotechnical Faculty and the Experimental Electrotechnical Institute with part of the premises of the former Elizavetinsky Institute, on the condition that in spring, when warm weather arrives, the Radishchev School, which is housed in that institute, would be relocated to different premises.

If you do not agree with this proposal from Professor Krug—I am placing under your personal responsibility the task of finding and providing the institute with premises within a 2-week period.

Report to me on the completion by March 3rd.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

copies

* The letter has not been found. Ed.

Written February 16, 1922

First published in 1959

in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

Reproduced from the typescript